Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: children in japan: difficulty with school system, culture, and language Date: 2 Jun 2004 13:45:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <73fde4f0.0406021245.3c928bb9@posting.google.com> References: <7a685be3.0405311506.45039c4f@posting.google.com> <2i25jbFi9cjjU1@uni-berlin.de> <2i3tuhFifgc8U1@uni-berlin.de> <9varb0h1ju72qdliqeb3dlgecpbhd66oo3@4ax.com> <40BDB4BF.6060901@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.190.40.78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1086209153 10330 127.0.0.1 (2 Jun 2004 20:45:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14105 Declan Murphy wrote in message news:<40BDB4BF.6060901@hotmail.com>... > Michael Cash wrote: > > > It's very similar to the thing of Americans getting pissed off when > > Japanese just *assume* they're American. > > I didn't know sepponians got pissed off when Japanese just assumed the > sepponians are sepponians. I thought it was the non-sepponians who got > pissed off, especially since its not just the Japanese who assume they > are sepponian, but also the sepponians who assume that all the gaigin > they meet (even here on not-quite-usenet) are sepponians. > I've always thought that was a bit of an unfair assumption. Not untrue, but not fair either since I think it's somewhat natural to assume that someone who looks like a Sepponian is a Sepponian (and etc.). I had a British roommate once and he assumed people were from Sepponia too. I tend to lean towards assuming everyone's from Canada. Less chance of pissing anybody off, and if the person IS from Canada it makes them so happy. John W.